[MOBY-l] further thoughts on atomic services & service description

[Mark Wilkinson]

Martin Senger wrote:
>>Only if that is the service-providers responsibility.  Under the 
>>existing MOBY architechture it is not... which is *precisly* why it was 
>>designed this way.
>>
> 
>    Perhaps I miss something: but WSDL will be always responsibility of the
> service provider, not? 


WSDL is just an agreed upon way of represeting a service interface.  It 
is the service interface which is the important thing for the service 
provider to worry about, not the representation of it to the outside 
world.  In MOBY (current architechture) the interfaces are described in 
ontologies, so WSDL is not used to *define* the interface, it is merely 
a convenient way to represent it.  Hence, it is not the service 
providers problem.

If the entire WSDL spec dies an untimely death, MOBY will still survive 
:-)

WSDL is not a magic bullet, and I am loathe to start leaning on it too 
much.  As I ranted about to the I3C last week - the goal is not the 
registration of arbitrary services, the goal is interoperability.  In 
some cases service providers will have to be willing to re-define their 
services to play the MOBY game, because MOBY is in no way arbitrary.

M


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